Ionut Ungureanu
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When it comes to his preferences, our newest team member will always want to get the oldest ride in the barn. He’ll be the first to try a steam-engined car and will probably start a random discussion about it. Modern designs are rarely going to his likes, but when we tease him with annoying questions, our “celebrities specialist” will eventually admit hypercars are what he dreams of.
Personal motto: It’s later than you think, so push the pedal.
Bill Goldberg’s Cobra Has a NASCAR Engine That Sounds Perfect
26 Oct 2015, 09:52 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Bill Goldberg reminds this writer of the late 1990s wrestling, back when people would still wonder if all the moves these big fellows performed in the ring were fake or not. Sure, nowadays the 48-year-old sportsman is more into cars and restoring o...
One-of-a-Kind Watch Worn by NASA Astronaut on the Moon Fetches $1.6 Million
26 Oct 2015, 09:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The fact that this timepiece exists in the first place is more like a mistake that may have saved one of Apollo 15’s lunar missions in 1971. It was only after the NASA-provided Omega watch broke that commander of the mission Dave Scott decide...
FlyKly Smart Ped Is a Kick-Assist E-Bike That Lets You Enjoy the View
25 Oct 2015, 09:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine a lightweight kick scooter. So far, nothing unusual. Now, add great design and make it foldable. Still not a big deal. What if instead of a regular one, you have a smart wheel in the back that has a built-in electric motor? Each kick become...
Tesla’s Autopilot Software Gets the Green Light, but Do People Understand How It Works?
24 Oct 2015, 13:17 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Elon Musk has just announced that Tesla Motors has received regulatory approvals for the recently revealed Autopilot software update. All countries, except Japan where it’s still under review, can now use this feature on their Tesla cars. Gre...
Tesla Is Negotiating with China to Produce EVs Domestically
24 Oct 2015, 12:32 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Everybody in the biz wants a piece of China’s massive car market. The communist country currently has the biggest demand for new cars on the planet, and with the government’s plans to reduce carbon emissions and clean up the air, electr...
580-Ton Monster Is Building Massive Bridges in China, Looks Scary
24 Oct 2015, 11:27 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / You almost expect Arnie to jump out of the control cabin and tell you to get to the Choppa! It means you can probably smell the blend of steel and concrete from a mile away. Worry not, though, this colossal machine is always one step ahead; literal...
Woman Destroys Cheating Husband’s BMW 7 Series with a Hammer
23 Oct 2015, 16:09 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Rarely do you get footage of such vandalism, but considering this woman smashed a BMW 7 Series with a hammer for about 20 minutes, witnesses had enough time to get their smartphones ready and push the record button. For what it’s worth, it is...
We All Want a Smarter Car, Voyo Will Turn Your Old Clunker into One
23 Oct 2015, 15:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine a tiny device you connect to the on-board diagnostics (OBD) - II port of your car. Two minutes later, you suddenly have everything from a dashboard to a driving log, standard diagnostics, door lock/unlock, vehicle location and advanced aler...
Ford Is Using 62% Less Water in the Manufacturing Process than 14 Years Ago
23 Oct 2015, 14:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Water may seem like a relatively cheap resource, but the scientific forecast shows that its cost is expected to rise continuously for a number of reasons. Ford claims the company sees water as far more than an environmental concern. Access to clean...
Chad Johnson Sends His New 2016 Smart ForTwo to the Shop, Asks Fans Not to Laugh
23 Oct 2015, 13:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Chad who? How about the football wide receiver currently playing for Montreal Alouettes best known by Ochocinco? The six-time NFL Pro Bowler is one of the A-listers in the game, but it’s not just sports that made him famous but also his car-s...
Woman Trapped for Six Days in Chevrolet Malibu Sues GM over Electronic Stability Control
23 Oct 2015, 12:23 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Last year in May, General Motors had informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of five safety recalls covering about 2.7 million vehicles in the United States. This does not relate to the massive hit that was the company’s i...
UK Motorists Are Not That Happy About Keyless Car Technology
23 Oct 2015, 11:29 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We’re not going to start all over again with the “cars are not what they used to anymore.” If we want to step with the right foot into the praised 21st century, though, we need to acknowledge that technology is a double-edged swor...
Toyota Is Launching the 2016 Prius in Hollywood
23 Oct 2015, 09:28 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Toyota is pushing the pedal towards making the air cleaner in the US, or at least towards increasing the sales of their cleaner car models. Either way, celebrities in Hollywood clearly have a message to spread, and the Japanese carmaker has been us...
Leonardo DiCaprio to Chair Formula E Sustainability Committee
23 Oct 2015, 09:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Ever since the Titanic split in two and sank in the freezing waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Leonardo DiCaprio started getting involved in climate change. Well, we’re talking about the virtual disaster they used to shoot the famous 1997 movie, ...
You Can Buy Ferrari-Maserati Cars in Las Vegas Again
23 Oct 2015, 08:10 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Great news, gamblers! Last week, the only place you could buy an Italian exotic in Sin City closed. (Wait for it!) For ten years, a Ferrari-Maserati dealership inside the Wynn Las Vegas casino and hotel had players peeking at the supercar engineers...
Ford Is Looking Towards the Gecko for Future Technologies
22 Oct 2015, 16:01 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / “Vanity, definitely my favorite sin” - it’s what Al Pacino says at the end of The Devil’s Advocate, and the broadly accepted meaning of the line is that, ultimately, what humans crave for is adulation. Say it weren’t f...
Boris Johnson Calls the New Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV a Self-Satisfied Cat
22 Oct 2015, 15:35 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / You can send an official letter to the press office of London’s town hall, or you can invite the mayor himself to Tokyo, at your company’s headquarters. These are two ways you could launch a new car, and Mitsubishi went for the second c...
China’s Modern Zeppelin Is a Solar-Powered Giant of the Skies That Travels Near Space
22 Oct 2015, 14:34 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Seen as a tremendous engineering discovery of the beginning of the 19th century, the principal feature of Zeppelin’s design was a fabric-covered rigid metal framework made up of traverse rings and longitudinal girders containing some individu...
DJ Afrojack May Wake Up in a Bugatti Chiron Soon
22 Oct 2015, 13:38 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The best thing you can do as a successful artist these days is waking up in a new Bugatti and sing about it - just like Ace Hood did with his big hit. Sure, we can’t understand much of what the rapper is saying because of that synthesizer, bu...
Pop Singer Austin Mahone Turns His Range Rover Pink for a Good Cause
22 Oct 2015, 12:09 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / You’re not an accomplished pop artist if you can’t resonate with the less fortunate's grief, and you’re not a superstar if you don’t at least try to make this world a better place. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Mon...